Advices on "nose in the wall" larvae

My clownfish larvae just stuck their nose to the wall through their first days. This is certainly affecting their nutrition as meta is being delayed by a few days and I'm seeing some deformities post-meta. I've just set up a recirculating system to deal with water quality and reducing daily labour from meta on.
 
Alternatives that have been suggested about the wall-nosing problem are adding phyto to the water and lowering light intensity.
First question: Does the light thing alone works ?
I was planning to go that route as growing phyto would be a PITA as I'm not home the whole week days and leave the fish under my wife's care. It would be one more chore left to her and I wouldn't like to do that.
I do not have an "easy" source of the refrigerated options like you have in the US and other countries and, although I have access to some powder products from INVE, using them did not reduce this behavior.
Next question: Is there any alternative out there that does not need to be refrigerated, at least, until the bottle is opened ?
If the answers are no to both, I'll need to wait someone I know go to US and is willing to bring some RotiGreen on a termic bag...

Anderson.

If I understand correctly, you're not using phyto for "greenwater"? If that is the case, tinting the water green will definitely help solve the problem. 
 
When my fry start hanging out near the glass I know it's time to add more phyto. You're using tanks that are painted black on the sides, right?
 
I don't know about lowering the light, I haven't tried that. 

http://www.fishtalpropagations.com/#!home/mainPage
"Making captive breeding easier."

Exactly, not using phyto as I didn't want to make my wife (I'm only around on weekends) culture it and I haven't easy access to refrigerated options.
I was looking for some way around it so I don't have to stop raising them for some time before I get the products.
I have them on round tubes that are brown or dark green (couldn't find the black ones...) but I can paint them black if it helps.

Anderson.

Hmm... I've always used some type of phyto, haven't tried going without. Are the tubs dark green/brown? I know that Dan uses blue tubs for seahorses.

http://www.fishtalpropagations.com/#!home/mainPage
"Making captive breeding easier."

I use dark green tubs, and thought it made little difference, although I do get a lot of nose bumping with clowns and neons I have to tint the water a lot to stop it

I have noticed clowns "nose bumping" even in BRTs if the water is not green enough.  Reducing the light levels using layers of paper towels did help for me.  The best solution is to use a good green water protocol of one type or another (live Nannochloropsis or a RotiGreen product + ClorAm-X).

We do ship to Brazil now (IIRC), perhaps we could alert you when someone is is getting it and you could piggy back on the order?  We're only really shipping to hatcheries currently IIRC.

I didn't see any of that with the clowns I raised with no green water at all. They were in a blue tub with the inside painted black, though.

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Current and a single-point light source might help in the absence of phyto - eg. using a kriesel might keep them faced nose-into-current vs. nosed against the sides...

If its just needed for background color, couldn't a whole slew of things be used that wouldn't effect the water quality? 

 
I have the same experiences.  I have clip on lamps though, and swivel them mostly away from the larvae for the first few days and use a mere 7.5 watt incandescent bulb.

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